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Reading might not be the way that the child engages with the world, but it should be something that they all learn how to…

— Kate DiCamillo

“A literary expert friend once told me that the way to teach your child to love and respect reading is not to read to…

— Karen Karbo

“Children learn to read by being in the presence of books.”

— Horace Mann

“I think the need for reading boils down to one simple issue: children are selfish. Reading about other people creates a sense of balance…

— Alan Bennett

If learning to read was as easy as learning to talk, as some writers claim, many more children would learn to read on their…

— David Elkind

We all know that reading is an invaluable life skill. It is vital for children in their education and as they take their place…

— Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall

Some people there are who, being grown; forget the horrible task of learning to read. It is perhaps the greatest single effort that the…

— John Steinbeck

I have this belief that children become readers before they can read. They become hooked on books because they were read aloud to as…

— Jacqueline Wilson

In every literate society, learning to read is something of an initiation, a ritualized passage out of a state of dependency and rudimentary communication.

— Alberto Manguel

Reading is one of the true pleasures of life. In our age of mass culture, when so much that we encounter is abridged,adapted, adulterated,…

— Thomas S. Monson

Children have to be motivated to want to learn to read. Reading must not be taught simply as a school exercise.

— Michael Morpurgo

Students read for tests and because their parents ask them to, but I think it's very important to tell children that you can read…

— Adora Svitak